Kenya & Zanzibar, Bush and Beach

Arrive at Nairobi Wilson, about 45 minutes by light aircraft to the Mara airstrips and transfer privately to your base. Time today to arrive in time for an afternoon game drive and sundowners on the plains.

• Private transfer via Nairobi Wilson
• Arrive in time for an afternoon game drive and sundowners on the plains
• Time to settle in before dinner

Dawn and late-afternoon drives for lion, elephant, buffalo, cheetah and, with luck, leopard and rhino. Sightings are never guaranteed and conservancies allow off-road tracking where the national reserve does not.

• Dawn game drive
• Big cat tracking with a Maasai guide
• Sundowners on the plains

Following the herds towards the Mara river crossings, which happen roughly July to October and cannot be scheduled: you wait, sometimes for hours, and sometimes nothing crosses.

• Mara river crossing points (July-October)
• Hippo and crocodile pools
• Full-day drive with bush lunch

Connect through Nairobi between international and bush flights. On arrival, rest, then dinner before the early start for the bush.

• Connect through Nairobi between international and bush flights
• Rest, then dinner before the early start for the bush
• Timings reconfirmed locally the day before

The Sheldrick elephant orphanage at its single daily public hour, the Giraffe Centre, and Karen Blixen's farmhouse under the Ngong Hills.

• Sheldrick Wildlife Trust orphan feeding
• Giraffe Centre
• Karen Blixen Museum

A morning drive in the only national park inside a capital city, with rhino and lion against the skyline, then the National Museum and Kazuri bead workshop.

• Nairobi National Park game drive
• Nairobi National Museum
• Kazuri beads cooperative

Fly across from the mainland or the Serengeti circuit to Zanzibar. On arrival, walk Stone Town's lanes to the Forodhani gardens as the food stalls open.

• Fly across from the mainland or the Serengeti circuit to Zanzibar
• Walk Stone Town's lanes to the Forodhani gardens as the food stalls open
• Timings reconfirmed locally the day before

The UNESCO-listed old town: carved doors, the former slave market and Anglican cathedral built over it, the House of Wonders and the Darajani market.

• Stone Town guided walk
• Former slave market memorial
• Forodhani night food gardens

A spice farm where cloves, nutmeg, vanilla and cinnamon are grown and tasted, and the Jozani forest's endemic red colobus monkeys.

• Spice farm tasting
• Jozani red colobus monkeys
• Mangrove boardwalk

A last swim before the transfer to the airport. Private transfer to Abeid Amani Karume International in good time for your onward flight.

• A last swim before the transfer to the airport
• Late check-out arranged where the hotel allows it
• Private departure transfer